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The teachers of the heartThe big question we can ask is: where today are the teachers of the heart? what teaching was lost when the teachers described by St.Paul were lost to the church? The answer to this question is surprising. In the introduction to my book, narrowing my study down to a problem that is as much outer as inner, I came in the end to ask of myself one particular question. I felt this question to be capable of answering the outer need as well as the inner hope. That question: How might I come to feel growing in my own heart the qualities described in the Sermon on the Mount? This is not a new question. In an earlier church, Saint Symeon the New Theologian once wrote.
Saint Symeon asked this question some time around the end of the last millennium, and despite his importance as one of the major formative influences of the Orthodox Church, this is one of a number of ‘hard questions’ he raised that for a long time have been generally forgotten outside monasticism, even in the Eastern Church. Today, attitudes to this question are divided into two main groups.
Today when, in countries such as England, so many people have left the churches for the first of these reasons, and when so many Christians and so many whole churches all over the world fall into the second type, all or almost all of which move further and further from the teachings of Christ in their attempts to respond to what they imagine to be popular demand, it seems important to emphasise that there does exist another alternative that gives a different kind of hope: a hope that Christians might again learn to live according to the Sermon on the Mount and that, doing so, they might begin to stem the tide of ethical collapse. |
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